netdev - [PATCH v3 29/30] docs: kdoc_re: don't remove the trailing ";" with NestedMatch

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Message-ID: <e307c046f3f788021060b5ad0fe996c6c6dfb2e0.1769673038.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:08:20 +0100
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 29/30] docs: kdoc_re: don't remove the trailing ";" with NestedMatch

Removing it causes the parse to break some conversions, when
NestedMatch is used on macros like __attribute__().

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index a49b42e3d189..294051dbc050 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
@@ -358,10 +358,6 @@ class NestedMatch:
 
             out += new_sub
 
-            # Drop end ';' if any
-            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
-                pos += 1
-
             cur_pos = pos
             n += 1
 
-- 
2.52.0